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The Book of Honor : The Secret Lives and Deaths of CIA Operatives

By Ted Gup

Book information

Publisher
Anchor
Year
2001
ISBN
0385495412, 9780385495417
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
4 MB (4242717 bytes)
Edition
1st Anchor Books ed
Pages
396\0
Time added
2013-12-14 06:07:07

Description

In the entrance of the CIA headquarters looms a huge marble wall into which seventy-one stars are carved-each representing an agent who has died in the line of duty. Official CIA records only name thirty-five of them, however. Undeterred by claims that revealing the identities of these "nameless stars" might compromise national security, Ted Gup sorted through thousands of documents and interviewed over 400 CIA officers in his attempt to bring their long-hidden stories to light. The result of this extraordinary work of investigation is a surprising glimpse at the real lives of secret agents, and an unprecedented history of the most compelling-and controversial-department of the US government.

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